Letter - Head Start budget: Direct funding to low-income kids

7:49 AM,
Nov. 17, 2013

Written by

Karen Potter - Ozark

Times are hard. Budgets are tight. We've heard this over and over again.

Last spring, the Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation Head Start director announced that 42 staff (but no management positions) would be cut from the program and several Head Start centers would be closed and/or consolidated due to sequestration. Federal funding would be cut and reorganization was necessary. Or was it?

The OACAC Area Board meeting was without a quorum to conduct business, so only five members of an executive committee voted to implement widespread changes based on budget information they had ...